Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Social Welfare Benefits: Discussion

Mr. Tony Kieran:

I do not wish to get into specific cases, to be fair to everybody. I now have responsibility for both the policy on and delivery of the scheme. I have a number of managers working around the country who manage the delivery. They work to me as well. We will look at how we streamline all of those activities and if there are wrinkles, as somebody mentioned earlier, we will iron them out. However, we are also looking at how we provide for skilling up the supervisor cohort because that is important. We will look at more inventive ways of using maybe the supervisor training fund so if courses are found that are suitable and will give supervisors skills in the particular areas they need, we will look at how we can fund those or what we can do to fund them.

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